str1 = "Deadline is August 10, 2018."
list(datefinder.find_dates(str1)) # [datetime.datetime(2018, 8, 10, 0, 0)]
behaves as expected, but
str2 = "Deadline is August 10, 2018. Reviewing will take about 15 to 20 days."
list(datefinder.find_dates(str2)) # [datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 15, 0, 0)]
seems to get confused about the 15 that occurs ~25 characters later.
I haven't looked too carefully at the implementation, but I wonder if there's an easy hack to fix this by constraining the lookahead window (e.g. no date string can span more than X characters)?
Example:
behaves as expected, but
seems to get confused about the
15that occurs ~25 characters later.I haven't looked too carefully at the implementation, but I wonder if there's an easy hack to fix this by constraining the lookahead window (e.g. no date string can span more than X characters)?